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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: church, as in the burnt offerings and sacrifices, as also in its Sabbaths and feasts, and in the priesthood of Aaron and the Levites; likewise in the other things in Moses, which are called laws, judgments, and statutes; which also is yneant by the words of the Lord to the disciples, That He must fulfill all things which were written concerning Him in the Law of Moses. Luke xxiv. 44. As also to the Jews; That Moses wrote of Him. John v. 46. From these now it is manifest, that the Lord came into the world that He might subjugate the hells, and glorify his Human; and that the passion of the cross was the last combat, by which He fully conquered the hells, and fully glorified his Human. But more on this subject may be seen in the treatise concerning The Sacred Scripture, where are adduced all the passages in the prophetical part of the Word, which treat concerning the combats of the Lord with the hells, and concerning his victories over them; or, what is the same thing, which treat concerning the last judgment executed by Him, while He was in the world, as also concerning the passion and the glorification of his Human; which are so numerous, that if they were all adduced, they would fill many psges THAT THE LORD, BY THE PASSION OF THE CROSS, DID NOT TAKE AWAY SINS, BUT THAT HE BORE THEM. 15. There are some within the church, who believe that the Lord, by the passion of the cross, took away sins, and satisfied the Father, and so redeemed; some also believe that He transferred to Himself the sins of those who have faith in Him, and that He bore them, and cast them into the depth of the sea, that is, into hell. These things they confirm in themselves by the words of John concerning Jesus; Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, John i. 29; and b...